The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs is home to five African elephants named Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo.
The court ruled Tuesday that the elephants couldn't be released because animals don't have the same rights as humans. The group that filed the suit said that the animals were experiencing stress, ...
Rulings in favor of the animals would have allowed lawyers for both Happy and the elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo — to pursue ...
A court has rejected the notion that elephants are people, upholding a zoo's right to keep the animals after a yearslong legal scrap.
The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the suit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024 alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African elephants named Missy, Kimba ...
"Because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim," the court ...
Lucky and Missy will remain at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. It followed a similar decision in 2022 by New York state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, that another aged elephant ...
Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their own freedom from a Colorado zoo, the state’s ...
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs has attracted the ire of the national activist group In Defense of Animals (IDA), which put the zoo on its annual Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants in ...
Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but, since they’re not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday.
Colorado's highest court has ruled in favor of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after it was sued by an animal rights group over the alleged treatment of elephants at the Colorado Springs facility.